Yes, your parent misrepresented the quote which indeed was about "free exchange of ideas facilitating Trump", but then the co-founder misrepresented what twitte

Yes, your parent misrepresented the quote which indeed was about "free exchange of ideas facilitating Trump", but then the co-founder misrepresented what twitter actually is and this is what parent wanted to point out, I think. As a matter of fact, you can't express any serious idea in 140 characters. Twitter really is a tool for mobilizing and organizing mobs of people who are already somewhat familiar with and supportive of your ideas, which is exactly why all sorts of activists and politicians use it for their campaigns. What made the presidential campaign on twitter look the way it did was not really deficit of censorship, but fighting a political battle on grounds where there is no space for actual exchange of ideas but only for appeals to emotions and prejudices, personal attacks and name calling. The conclusion is: if you don't want populism to win, maybe you should be careful building such platforms. And twitter has been known to be conducive to ugly flamewars for years, go read about gamergate. Maybe parent thought that founders regret not the lack of control but the fact they built such a thing, but then it seems you are right that they actually don't.